UCLA Samueli School of Engineering faculty members will lead a University of California Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives (MRPI) project on developing more equitable disaster response and participate in another on advanced robots to address inequities in health care.
The University of California recently announced its 2021 MRPI awards for 15 multicampus proposals totaling more than $18 million over four years. Selected from a pool of 94 eligible applications, these awards represent “an investment in innovative, interdisciplinary research across a broad range of fields, engaging faculty and students across UC campuses, and supporting collaborations that strengthen UC’s research enterprise and benefit UC and the people of California.”
UCLA is host to two of the 15 MRPI projects, with civil and environmental engineering professor Henry Burton being the lead principal…